Article April 27, 1899 Issue

Suit about Vaccination

The Sun

Miss Martha Willet and her father, George H. Willet, 608 Cumberland Street, have sued the city for $3,000 and $1,000 damages, respectively. The suits were filed yesterday in the Court of Common Pleas by Attorney Isidor Goldstrom. The action is taken for alleged blood-poisoning caused Miss Willet by being vaccinated on March 3 by a vaccine physician. Miss Willet's arm has swollen considerably from her shoulder to the wrist and she is unable to attend to her duties. The vaccination occurred, it is said, at the factory where she is employed. She is under the care of Dr. Robert Fawcett.

Dr. C. Hampson Jones, commissioner of health, said Miss Willet is one of several hundred girls employed in a factory where also was employed a sister of a man living on North Central Avenue who was sent to the Quarantine Hospital a few weeks ago suffering from smallpox. The sister occupied a room adjoining that of her brother, and it was necessary for her to pass through his room twice a day to reach her own room. For fear that she might carry the contagion in her clothing to the factory and cause a spread of the disease, he caused all the girls in the factory to be vaccinated.

Benjamin Fuller, colored, 1424 Fairmount Avenue, says his six-months-old child died in convulsions Monday, March 13, one hour after the child had been vaccinated by a vaccine physician.

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